Make no mistake, the centennial for Black History Month is a major deal.
“Who would’ve thunk that 100 years ago, what started as a day, then a week, has evolved into a whole month—and hopefully the whole year,” Patricia Wright, from St. Petersburg’s Historic Bethel AME Church, told tis reporter on WMNF News public affairs program “The Skinny.”
The celebration has its origins in Negro History Week, which was established by Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson back in 1926. The week expanded to a month in 1970 and finally got acknowledged by a sitting president—Republican Gerald Ford—in 1976…